2006-10-01 01:07:55 · 4 answers · asked by maolin71 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I went to the play "Copenhagen" and afterward they also screened a documentary afterward about the meeting. In total it struck me like making observations of Rutherford's gold foil experiment. We will never know what went on in that room. We can only measure the deflections, the repurcussions.
You asked this question because you had a speculation. You may be right.
2006-10-01 14:24:21 · answer #1 · answered by Tekguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They agreed on what is now known as the 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics. The wave-particle duality was already well established and they agreed on how it should be interpreted in the quantum-mechanical sense. That is, that a particle 'exists' in multiple quantum states as a collection of 'wave functions' (called 'superposed' states) and that, at the instant an observation is made (information is extracted from the system) all of the superposed states collapse to one wave function (one of the possible eigenstates of the system) which then becomes the 'observed' value.
About 10 years later another very sharp physicist named Hugh Everett proposed that there was no 'wave function collapse' and that, when the observation was made, it was our Universe which bifurcated and created 'multiple Universes'.
Find a copy of 'the Fabric of Reality' by David Deutsch. It has a good explanation of this.
Doug
2006-10-01 01:23:48 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably talked about the possibility of producing a nuclear reaction that would release a tremendous amount of energy as predicted by Einsteins formula, E=MC^2
2006-10-01 01:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by confused 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they got busted and taken to da nearest venereal diseases clinic
2006-10-01 01:12:43 · answer #4 · answered by ★HigHTƹcH★ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋